the Foreign Ministry is gearing up to issue visas to true patriots as soon as September! It’s time to stand up for spiritual and moral values!

My God these people are fucking idiots.

True patriots leave their country for Russia, and to flee your country is to “stand up for spiritual and moral values”. /s

And get a much better sandwich too.

I think their bread always sucked personally. Like they bake their own bread and it always smells like ass in their restaurants. How is that even possible? Freshly baked bread usually smells good.

Following the full recommendations on every piece of equipment you buy would result in every waking hour of your day being filled with maintenance and busywork.

If the pan works for you, who gives a rat’s ass?

I know you think you’re the smartest person on Earth giving unthinking Americans lessons or something but you haven’t taught me a damned thing here at all except what the German word for neoliberal is.

(But, I know, don’t dare call them that!!! 😡🤬 😤)

😆

Separately, even frequent users of the habitual be wouldn’t write a sentence like that.

Inequality doesn’t just turn up out of nowhere.

Why would anyone post this? Of course it didn’t just turn up out of nowhere.

What it is, and what I expect people with a modicum of knowledge of the English language to understand it as, is vaguely gesturing at the overall situation and saying “this thing here that be the way it do”.

That quoted phrase you have there is pure hot nonsense.

What are the reasons those pointed-at reasons persist? Why does is that persistence more pronounced is some places, but not others? Can there be a symptom without underlying causes?

Read theory if you’re actually curious and not just posting to post. Personally, I’ve come to think of inequality as being at the center of it all.

But the reason is certainly not “because <<country>> is <<country>>”.

Those kinds of difference goes all the way back to rugged individualism and whatnot. Or, less detailed but not less accurate: Because the US is the US.

“I heard a phrase once about Americans, so that must be why they’re sliding towards fascism. It definitely can’t be for the same reasons people have pointed to for a hundred years.”

The fuck would race have to do with anything you really are American.

Right, right, it’s not that Somalia is Somalia, it’s something in their “culture”? Right?

I said it before and I’ll say it again: The American mind can’t comprehend European social liberals.

Oh so smug, and yet still “European social liberals” are constantly on the brink of having their own outbreak of fascism.

I think that one of the few reasons the Nazi party hasn’t re-emerged in Germany is that it’s strictly forbidden by law.

But you’re talking about the US, specifically. Complaining about regulation not working in the US is like complaining that rule of law is a non-starter in Somalia: The issue is not the idea of the rule of law, but Somalia being Somalia.

Oh yes, it’s simply because the US is the US, and has nothing to do with the fact that we’ve had neoliberal politicians for approximately 50 years. All of that stuff I mentioned at the end of my last post was describing mid 20th century US politics.

Also, comments like “rule of law doesn’t work in Somalia because it’s Somalia” show me you have exactly nothing to add to any conversation about geopolitics and borders on racism.

The stuff I described was not a neoliberal rule at all, they abhor any kind of regulation that’s not securing property rights for the affluent.

Don’t agree with your definition of “neoliberal” really at all, and especially not within the context of American politics. It’s too narrow and wouldn’t fit most any politician.

This “regulate away market failures to approach the ideal of the free market better” thing is ordoliberalism.

Do we really have to have yet another esoteric term for what is largely the same school of thought?

I am not really sure what point you are trying to make other than arguing definitions. Much of or even most of prominent American politicians in the last half century or so could be classified as neoliberals. They favor “market”-based solutions to everything and “public-private” partnerships. Many of those still consider welfare necessary as well so they’d be “ordoliberals” in your book.

Ordoliberalism is the German variant of economic liberalism that emphasizes the need for government to ensure that the free market produces results close to its theoretical potential but does not advocate for a welfare state. Ordoliberal ideals became the foundation of the creation of the post-World War II German social market economy and its attendant Wirtschaftswunder.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordoliberalism

Actually, maybe not because that just sounds like German for neoliberal.

The concept of regulatory capture is the fundamental illustrating concept in modern US politics. Industry groups and the wealthy sit on our politicians until they get exactly what they want. Traditional and increasingly even social media serve as the persuasion arm for the wealthy, industrial class. Simple rules added in good faith and followed by industry groups via “self-regulation” simply do not work here. Even if you pass the rule and then later try to enforce it, enforcement is made toothless by our Supreme Court.

There are a few places in the country where politicians can hit back at industry groups with some degree of success, but even in our most “ordoliberal” or “liberal liberal” or “neoliberal” or “choco-moco-latta-yaya-liberal” states, industry mostly wins.

And we’re just ahead of the curve in the slow slide toward fascism. Exactly as the Nobel laureate here is saying, neoliberalism is just another mechanism used to hollow out the government from within and make it ineffective until it serves mostly no one, and then that disenchantment with material conditions over time leads to right-wing populism (a.k.a. fascism).

The Marxists have been saying this all along, and I am not a Marxist though I agree with a lot of Marx’s analysis on capitalism and industry. I think there is an alternative, and I think mid-century American politics illustrated it…strong unions, a welfare state, tax policy that levels out wealth inequality, and a government capable of regulating industry.

My point is that it’s not as simple as setting “common sense” neoliberal rules when the corporations actively evade them. The problem in the US is also more complicated than you’re making it, here we need to basically redo a court which is full of people on lifetime appointments in order to roll back their ruling that political corruption is basically free speech.

I dunno if I were in Germany I wouldn’t be so smug about electing politicians that prevent a slide into fascism.

Yep, nothing inefficient about an intern commuting via plane from South Carolina to New York everyday because it’s much cheaper than living in New York. /s 🙄

or you could say “producers, you’re now paying for the disposal of packaging yourself”

Definitely wouldn’t solve the problem as they’d just find the cheapest method of disposal to match the letter of the law and go about their day.

Corporations don’t self-regulate. They regulate the regulators. They work and then later buy the refs.

Maybe I’m missing something then, how would you pass a DNS challenge?

I agree, if you’re putting your internal domain names into the public DNS you do not need a star cert.

I agree that this is a good idea, but I wanted to add that if someone owns a domain already, they can also use that internally without issue.

If you own a domain and use Let’s Encrypt for a star cert, you can have nice, well secured internal applications on your network with trusted certificates.

This new lingo was created on the Internet and it shows.

But if he is racist and misogynistic, and she is supposedly a black woman, then he wouldn’t possibly think that. He would, misguidedly of course, consider her a perfect doubly-inferior opponent.

This implies that racism and misogyny require internal logical consistency, which of course they do not.

It’s the same way with the constantly evolving other in fascism that’s simultaneously devious and powerful enough to control everything, while at the same time so weak that they’ll be easily defeated.

It’s also like how COVID is simultaneously an evil plandemic cooked up in a lab by evil scientists solely to ruin Trump’s economy, and a harmless flu variant that will vanish like magic.

It’s also like how masks are completely ineffective against COVID, and will leave you so starved of oxygen that you’ll die of asphyxiation if you’re forced to wear one.

No internal consistency is required for these things, it’s all feels over reals.

Literally everyone in the fucking world realizes that political assassinations are a bad thing, but y’all are over here in your bubble thinking it was totally justified because Trump is a horrible person.

As someone who would have been glad he was dead, that’s not the entirety of the reasoning. Plenty of horrible people don’t deserve to be killed.

However, Trump is a specific type of “horrible person”. He’s one that is campaigning to be king for four years again (thanks to the supreme court and the toadies that make up congress), after having just fucked up the entire country for four years and then trying to overthrow the government because he lost an election. This asshole not only evaded but also destroyed the system of any other type of justice he can face.

He’s extremely likely to bring down whatever is left of our democracy when he (seemingly inevitably) returns to power in around six months.

So, I don’t give a single fuck about his troubles.

EDIT: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”